Capitalism

      I'm inclined to agree with Naomi Klein, the Canadian writer of "No Logo" fame who continually rails against the excesses of Capitalism. In her latest effort, "This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs. The Climate", she again beats the drum that corporate capitalistic corruption and greed is what's at the bottom of much of our world conflagrations and makes a strong argument that our current climate crisis is due to economic factors, driven by corporate interventions that have turned our delicately balanced ecosystem into a toxic playground for international corporate hucksters.
     “our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it’s not the laws of nature.”
     Change rarely comes through sound reasoning, foresight, and lessons learned from history. Instead, we seem to require a catalyst of sorts to shock us into making sound moves, which we then do reluctantly.

     Time does not seem to be our friend. We are running out of it and haven't learned much from it. I worry. Excessively.

Capitalism

Our dalliance

More than dalliance

Likely obsession

More than likely

Our addiction

All the time

All money

Oily words

Oil wars

Drug wars

Drug Words

MONEY

WORDS

DEEDS

ALL

THE

TIME

MONEY

All money

All the time.

Oh, Orangutan - A Rap by DJ TazzieDog

Fires are raging

Chasing the precious few

New to extinction

And resource depletion

Clear cut destruction

The fuckers just fucked ‘em

Running for cover

No safe zones, they hover

In branches, the grime

The soot from the crime of

Such conflagration and desecration

Corporate greed, the seed

The need to decimate trees

To oil their palms

With palm oil balms

Monoculture, the vultures

Deforest the soil, circling the toil

That mucks up the air

And fucks up this fair planet

We all share

Stare long and hard

At the label, boycott palm oil

Soiled with the stain

Of blood, anguish, pain

Oh,Orangutan

Refugeehadi - A Rap by DJ TazzieDog

Boots on the ground

The mantra of pitch

The cliche resounds in perception

Let’s ditch all reasonable thoughts

And march to the fear that’s

Grinding us all to a near fever pitch

Jihadists in droves wash in with the tide

Riding the wave of dear Allah’s praise

Raise the kalishnikovs mightily high

The whole lot of them are readying to die

Mosques are replete with

Bomb wearing freaks

Check out those chicas in hajibs

Complete with detonating breasts

Of mass disruption

Our induction into the

Flag waving, face saving, fear making

Production, staged by the MAN

With the shifty eyed glare

Who stares at opportunity

Feigning national unity

We’re stooges, you see,

Heeding the call to blind, lady Liberty

While blinding us all.